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A Day in the Life of a Quarantiner

Google is telling me that quarantiner isn't a word.  Quarantinee isn't either apparently.  Quarantinites?  Quarantinese? Nope and nope.  Not sure what to call us....

Anyway, here is how our days have been rolling out:

❇ If it's been a good night, wake up about 5:30.  If it's not been as good, it's much, much earlier.

❇ Lounge around.  Call home.  Check messages.  Try to go back to sleep.  Etc.

❇ Say some prayers.  Begin study.  


❇ 7:00ish breakfast arrives.  Try to get used to veggies like this for breakfast.


❇ Finish study.  Think about showering.  

❇ Look out the window.  Watch students at the nearby school do tai chi.


❇ Think a bit more about showering.  I have to wash more underwear if I change out of them.

❇ Read very nice notes our YW sent with the girls to have something to open each day.  Makes me cry.


❇ Temperature check.

❇ Yoga routine. (life saver)  Exercise has to wait until after temperature checks so I'm not overheated.


❇ Take a shower.

❇ Eat a snack.

❇ Index a batch.  This is what I envisioned I'd be doing a lot of during quarantine.  But the website has not been cooperating very well with me.  I've been lucky to get in a single batch a day. 😔


❇ Get a nose or throat swab.


❇ Eat another snack. This was a normal occurrence prior to the news of adding 11 more days and Tom and I are starting to ration snacks to make sure there is enough for the girls throughout.   

❇ Read WeChat messages from our chatty Branch group.

❇ Duo Lingo for Chinese practice.  Doesn't seem to be helping much!

❇ Assign out jobs for the day:  fold the previous day's laundry, make beds, sweep up crumbs, organize areas, put the trash out the door, Clorox wipe the bathroom, wash more clothes...


❇ Ask what time it is.  It's usually several HOURS earlier to the time we all think it is.

❇ 11:30 lunch arrives.  A fruit usually comes with each lunch.  Highlight of the day!


❇ Do something with our assigned person (no screens!).  (These rotate each day.  Yesterday, Tom and I had our executive council in the bathroom---Tessa hates whispering and that was our only choice!) Today I had time with Greta.  We played Jaipur.


❇ Break up some squabbles.

❇ Color in a coloring book + listen to conference talks


❇ Look out the window.


❇ Temperature check #2

❇ Write in journal.

❇ Wish to eat a snack.  (see above)

❇ Zentangle + podcast


❇ Nap.

❇ Wait for dinner. Break up some squabbles.

❇ Watch how to make Chocolate Banana Croissants--a Korean street food with Tessa.

❇ 5:00 dinner arrives.  


❇ Color some more.

❇ Another yoga routine.

❇ Attempt some Chinese.  A "Thank you" to hang on our door.


❇ Write a blog post.

Call it a day!  More work tomorrow!

It's a pretty plush life, really!   
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